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Stater
| Issuer | Teos (Ionia) |
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| Year | 510 BC - 490 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Griffin, the civic badge of Teos, depicted seated in right profile with elaborately detailed curled wings spread upward, the foreleg raised with paw extended; a club appears in the right field. The design is rendered in the Archaic style with careful attention to feather and scale texturing, set within a beaded border. The flan is irregular and broadly struck, characteristic of early Ionian coinage of the late 6th to early 5th century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (510 BC - 490 BC) |
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Teos occupied an uncomfortable position in the early fifth century BC — a prosperous Ionian city whose merchant wealth depended on open sea lanes that Persian expansion directly threatened. When Cyrus's generals tightened their grip on Ionia following the suppression of the Milesian revolt, a significant portion of the Tean population chose mass emigration over submission, relocating to Abdera in Thrace around 545 BC. The staters struck in the decades bracketing 500 BC thus represent a city actively negotiating its survival between defiance and accommodation.